WSUS 3.0 SP2 RTM is now available!

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The WSUS Product Team is proud to announce that WSUS 3.0 SP2 is now available! Get it today!

We recommend installing SP2 on all existing and new installations of WSUS.

WSUS 3.0 SP2 supports the latest operating systems including Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Windows 7 clients. WSUS 3.0 SP2 is more robust and features significant improvements in client performance, reliability, and increased server usability and reliability.

Administrators will see improvements in several areas including:

Reports

· New Update and Computer Status reports provide the ability to report on only the updates you’ve approved for installation. You can run these reports from the WSUS console or use the API to incorporate this functionality into your own reports.

Auto-Approval Rules

· Auto-approval rules now include the ability to specify theinstallation deadline date and time for all computers or specific computer groups.

Update Files and Languages

· Improved handling of language selection for downstream servers includes a new warning dialog that appears when you decide to download updates only for specified languages.

Easy Upgrade

· WSUS 3.0 SP2 can be installed as an in-place upgrade from earlier versions of WSUS and will preserve all of your settings and approvals. The user interface is compatible between WSUS 3.0 SP1 and SP2 on the client and the server.

Software Updates

· Stability and reliability fixes for the WSUS server, such as support for IPV6 addresses.

· The approval dialog now sorts computer groups alphabetically by group name.

· Computer status report sorting icons are now functional in x64 environments.

· A new release of Windows Update Agent is included with WSUS 3.0 SP2 that provides improvements in reliability and faster client scan times, the ability to perform ‘scoped’ scans, improved update organization, more clarity on update value and behavior, plus improved display of imaged machines.

Operating Systems Supported by WSUS 3.0 SP2

Server

· Windows Server 2008 R2

· Windows Server 2008 SP1 or later

· Windows Server 2003 SP2 or later

Client

· Windows 7 client

· Windows Server 2008 R2

· Windows Server 2008 SP1 or later

· Windows Server 2003 SP2 or later

· Windows Vista

· Windows XP Professional

· Windows XP Professional SP1

· Windows XP Professional SP2

· Windows XP Professional SP3 or later

· Windows 2000 SP4

For more information about WSUS 3.0 SP2 including documentation and download instructions, see:

1. Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2 Dynamic Installer for Server Manager (KB972493)

2. Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2 (KB972455)

Additional information

For more information about this release visit us at our Windows Server Update Services page.

 

The Product Team would like to thank you for your support throughout Beta and RC of this release. Thank you for making WSUS a better product!

Regards,

Cecilia Cole

WSUS PM

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I have implemented it in the Workgroup environment where computer name could be same ....but problem is that same computer name are not registering in WSUS....

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Thanks guys! Dmitriy went update his WSUS SP1

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2009
    Thanks ETA for the localized Versions of WSUS SP2?

  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2009
    Why is it that a new version of Report Viewer is required by every new version of WSUS yet you don't include it with WSUS? It's pretty silly. Every WSUS admin runs Windows update then gets the warning about report viewer, so they have to go to the download site to get it. It's not even offered as an optional update for WSUS servers that go to the Windows Update website.

  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2009
    WSUS always contains all locales

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2009
    Thanks guys, will get to testing this for deployment right away.

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2009
    "Upgrading" from WSUS 3.0 SP1 SP2 (uninstalling and reinstalling, additional installation of "Report Viewer 2008 SP1") are reset the properties in the virtual directory "Content" of IIS on the standard "a directory on this computer". A UNC path specified by with "wsusutil.exe movecontent" a WsusContent network then stopped working (client error code: 0x80244019 "error: failed download.").

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2009
    It broke my installation.

  1. Region settings have to be set to English nothing else
  2. ReportViewer 9 has to be installed. Now I have to fix that dead WSUS ... !@#$%^

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2009
    Can I upgrade a downstream server from WSUS 3.0 SP1 to SP2 if the upstream server is still in WSUS 3.0 SP1 ? I search the Release notes and the Deployment Guide but didn't found anything about that situation.

  • Anonymous
    August 27, 2009
    The install fails in SBS 2008 and leaves WSUS broken. Don't apply this update until the problem is fixed. Now I have to figure out how to recover the prior WSUS grrr.

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2009
    Why does SP2 feel the need to uninstall and reinstall, why can't it just patch files like any normal service pack? It just totally broke my SBS2003 SP2 installation and it's taken me 6 hours to get it back. Nightmare.

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2009
    I tried to install SP2 over 3.0 SP1 and get an error saying it couldn't be upgraded, it says look at the wsussetup.log but the path it refers to doesn't exist, nor does the file in any location, any ideas anybody?

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2009
    Both upgrades on our ESX test environment went without problems. Even though I created a snapshot before, it wasn't needed. I installed the new report viewer and after that just next, next, finished the WSUS 3.0 SP2. There wasn't even a reboot necessary.

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2009
    Broke the WSUS 3.0 SP1 installation on SBS 2008 When I applied, same as Twisty. SBS 2008 admins / owners beware.

  • Anonymous
    August 28, 2009
    It is the job of SBS to make sure their product works with new releases, not the other way around. Go to SBS or WSUS forums on TechNet for help, this is not a troubleshooting or complains page. Upgraded my SP1 to SP2 with no issues, thank you! "The" IT Master

  • Anonymous
    August 29, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    August 31, 2009
    wsus sp2 dont work via ntlm proxy...wsus sp1 work normal...

  • Anonymous
    August 31, 2009
    This broke my WSUS SP1!!!FOOOOOKK!!!

  • Anonymous
    September 01, 2009
    Why is it so slow? I run it on Athlon X2 2.5Ghz with 8GB of ram on windows 2008 R2 and the performance is a disaster. Clicking through updates takes forever, clicking through any options takes forever. I'm trying to approve or deny an update and it takes way too long. Do something about that.

  • Anonymous
    September 02, 2009
    WSUS 3.0 SP2 is only updating Windows 2kx, Vista and Win7, WinXP is not listed as supported platform for the KB972455 update on the WSUS server. The manual update works just fine, without problems. Anyway to correct the supported platforms to include WinXP? Thanks in advance, Stefan

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2009
    WSUS 3 SP1 in W2003 Broken 2009-09-03 17:14:43  Error     MWUSSetup          InstallWsus: MWUS Installation Failed (Error 0x80070643) 2009-09-03 17:14:43  Error     MWUSSetup          CInstallDriver::PerformSetup: WSUS installation failed (Error 0x80070643) 2009-09-03 17:14:43  Error     MWUSSetup          CSetupDriver::LaunchSetup: Setup failed (Error 0x80070643) 2009-09-03 17:18:12  Error     MWUSSetup          DoInstall: Wsus setup failed (Error 0x80070643) any idea?

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2009
    Installation on SBS2003R2 failed (unable to create network Share was the message on screen but log reads: 2009-09-04 11:07:04  Success   CustomActions.Dll  CopyADMFile:The system locale ENA is not supported. Using English... 2009-09-04 11:13:54  Error     MWUSSetup          InstallWsus: MWUS Installation Failed (Error 0x80070643: Fatal error during installation.) 2009-09-04 11:13:54  Error     MWUSSetup          CInstallDriver::PerformSetup: WSUS installation failed (Error 0x80070643: Fatal error during installation.) 2009-09-04 11:13:54  Error     MWUSSetup          CSetupDriver::LaunchSetup: Setup failed (Error 0x80070643: Fatal error during installation.) 2009-09-04 11:14:56  Error     MWUSSetup          CWatsonHelper::Init: Failed to load WER library. (Error 0x8007007E: The specified module could not be found.) 2009-09-04 11:14:56  Error     MWUSSetup          CSetupDriver::ReportFailure: Failed to initalize the CWatsonHelper.  This is expected on pre-Vista machines. (Error 0x80004005: Unspecified error) 2009-09-04 11:14:56  Error     MWUSSetup          DoInstall: Wsus setup failed (Error 0x80070643: Fatal error during installation.)

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2009
    this maybe helpful: cd windowssystem32 lodctr /R http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956 it worked with 'WSUS 3 SP1 in W2003 Broken'

  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2009
    Thanks, The install worked fine. As there are no updates pending I'm unable to thest WSUS but all seems good. Sorry if I created a double post.

  • Anonymous
    September 08, 2009
    The upgrade went fine for me on our main server. I haven't done our downstream servers yet. New 'Approved patches only' reports doesn't let you select multiple computer groups like the other reports do. You can only select one group at a time. If the patch isn't approved at that specific group level then it doesn't show up on the report. If you select the All Computers group then only patches specifically approved for All Computers will display. Any thing approved only at sub group levels won't show up. This is uselsess for us. Also, the client agent upgrade can't be managed. All clients get it automatically. We haven't had any issues with it but not a smart design.

  • Anonymous
    September 10, 2009
    Does it support Vista with SP2 installed?

  • Anonymous
    September 10, 2009
    The addition of computer tabular reporting for approved updates was a great idea.  I have noticed a problem, which may be intentional?  We run a "Servers" group with several sub groups, one of which being "Testing".  When I release patches to only the testing group, they do not show up if I run a tabular report for the "Servers" group with "Include child groups" checked.  They only show up if I run the tabular report on the testing group alone.  They will show up however if approved to all server groups, and not just one.  Was this designed on purpose, or possibly a flaw?  Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    September 10, 2009
    How come the new version does not support Windows Server 2003 R2 by itself or with a service pack and neither does the client version of the software. If I missed something sorry, but just trying to figure it out.

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2009
    Even a link here or in the console to the report viewer would be nice.  So far as I can tell so far, SP2 is just a breaking update.  What more would one expect from WSUS?  Updates?  Apparently not.  Now I will be looking for the report viewer download.

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2009
    Can you tell me if this phrase: "plus improved display of imaged machines" means that multiple computers all having the same SUSClientID registry entry due to being imaged after reporting to the WSUS server will now show up as separate PCs in the list in the WSUS console? I do hope so, because I could never understand the behaviour in v3.0 and v3.0SP1 where WSUS treats all the PCs as one despite them having different hostnames.

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    October 27, 2009
    Broken install. Unfortunately, as often with every WSUS SP. I will be back to the system image I took just before. And wait with SP1 the upcoming patching solution that comes in my company in a few months. Sorry, but this is really disappointing. I had never flawless WSUS updates since version 2.

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    I really hope there's going to be a fix for the "Dynamic Installers". It's frustrating having all of my 2008 servers showing as "needing updates" for something that will never install. What's the point of having a status for computers at all if it's so hopelessly broken now?

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2009
    Hi all. I have bad symptoms on SBS 2003 after updating WSUS 3.0 to SP2. Last night on application log appears more than 20k events related with WSUS Internal Database. Events ocurred 2 or 3 every second, from 9pm to 4am!! All events are like this:

EVENT Source: MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE EVENT ID: 33002 Access to module dbo.spGetChangeTrackingInformation is blocked because the signature is not valid.

I've searched the web but nothing! Please, I will appreciate your help. BYE

  • Anonymous
    November 16, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2009
    wsus sp2 dont work via ntlm proxy...wsus sp1 work normal

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    December 23, 2009
    Hi all! I would like to know the version of WSUS that come with WS2k8 R2 like a role?

  • Anonymous
    December 29, 2009
    hello every body actually i installed wsus 3.0 sp 2 but the problem is i am unable to open web site of my local wsus from iss but management console is working fine thanks in advance zee

  • Anonymous
    January 25, 2010
    Broke my WSUS 3 SP1 Install, clients now show erratically. Two weeks work to get WSUS SP1 working (selfupdate directory thing) fixes . . . . down the drain. Go Figure . . . WSUS broke itself . . . AGAIN!!!

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2010
    Thanks so much, Meredith! (and everyone!!) It’s great to hear from you, and it’s such a great encouragement.

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2010
    just installed on 2008 server R2 and all I can say is that doing anything in this is so painfully sloooow. Is there a fix?

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    February 22, 2010
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    April 01, 2010
    thank you ver much.. very nice....

  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2010
    Hi Guys, Just wondering, how do I setup the reporting for WSUS 3.0 SP2 so that I can view the reports through a web logon instead of going directly to the server. I know this was possible in WSUS 2.0. I used to type is wsus.domain.com and I could view the reports, but I can't do that any more. Can you please advise if there is a web address I can visit to show me how to setup IIS correctly so that I can view these reports through the WEB. Thanks.

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  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2010
    I am retiring a windows 2000 server running wsus 2.0. Is there a way to capture all of it's info moving it to wsus 3.0 on a windows 2008 standard server?

  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2010
    THank you for this information i will install it.

  • Anonymous
    May 11, 2010
    hello every body actually i installed wsus 3.0 sp 2 but the problem is i am unable to open web site of my local wsus from iss but management console is working fine

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  • Anonymous
    October 14, 2010
    Hi WSUS Team, Do you have an estimate of the total size of all the Windows Updates that are out since they started. thank you

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